Sentences with phrase «pull right paddle»

The eight - speed, torque converter gearbox is lightning - quick with its shifts and, as ever, you can use it in manual mode, gears shifting up only when you pull the right paddle.

Thanks to the car's launch control mode (hold the brakes, press the stability control button, switch the transmission to manual mode, pull both paddles, pull the right paddle to confirm, floor throttle, release brake, and breathe), it's also endlessly repeatable.

Launch control (apply brakes, set stability control to sport, dial transmission to RS, pull right paddle, stomp gas, release brake, go fast) will propel this hulk to 60 mph in 4.4 seconds, but get the sequence wrong and you'll be treated to a 4500 - rpm clutch dump that immolates the rear rubber in a smoky scene that would make Michael Bay envious.

Not exact matches

And when the bad eggs stopped pulling in the right direction and started rocking the boat, then we were up, excuse my language, shit creek, and worse, we had no paddle.

The monumental thrust is metered so progressively and gently at low revs that it's easy to forget how much remains on reserve, a problem very easily rectified by a stab of the right pedal and a pull on the downshift paddle.

Upshifts are triggered by a light pull on the right - hand paddle.

If you don't want to drive flat - out, you can work with it by lifting off the throttle as you pull the right - hand paddle, or better still just not changing gear as much and instead leaning more heavily on the huge well of torque provided by the engine.

Similarly it won't upshift unless you pull the right hand paddle, to a point where you can bounce it off the rev limiter in a chosen gear and still it won't change up.

Poking the glass button labeled «D» on the center console enables us to launch the V12 Vantage S. Slight pressure of the right foot makes the 565 - hp 5.9 - liter V - 12 vociferate testily until we touch the leather grip on the right - hand shift paddle, pulling forward for the second of seven ratios offered by the unusual, rear - mounted automated - manual transmission.

Other than the shift paddles being the push up / pull down variety instead of the standard right up, left down variety, I found the DCT to be easy to live with.

Foot on brake, pull the right - side carbon - fiber shift paddle, foot on gas, and we're off.

Perhaps Ferrari should consider offering a self - acting upshift function when the driver keeps the right paddle pulled — in the same way you can trigger consecutive downshifts by simply pulling and holding the left paddle.

Dab the brake pedal, pull back on the right - hand paddle and we're away, chuntering slightly as the e-gear software shuffles the clutch and engine revs, and the V10's torque fights against the all - wheel - drive viscous differentials as we peel away from our parking space.

Driving away is a cinch, for you simply pull back on the right - hand rocker paddle (or push on the left if you're feeling like Lewis Hamilton) and push gently on the smooth - acting throttle.

Twist the manettino fully clockwise to switch off everything apart from anti-lock, press the brake and select first with the right - hand paddle, then pull and hold the left - hand paddle for about three seconds.

The switch between gears can be smooth if you get your technique sorted and lift off the throttle the exact moment the «box goes for an upshift, but when you start to push on the delay between you pulling the right hand paddle and the gear hitting home increases and frustrates with equal measure.

It differs, however, in that its paddles (left for down, right for up) operate as one big rocker switch, meaning you can pull or push them to change gear, as in Lewis Hamilton's Formula 1 car.

It hits 170mph at 7500rpm in 6th, there's still another gear to go and when you pull the right - hand paddle for 7th, after shedding a few mph, the engine note hardens and it really hurtles back into the limiter.

Over 3800rpm the symphony is complex, and ornately crowned by a crisp «blurt» as you pull the right - hand paddle.

So Drive - Select on Sport Plus, pull both paddles on the steering wheel, left foot on the brake, right foot on the gas.

Shifting with the DCT is effortless, merely requiring a pull on the left paddle for downshift and the right for an upshift.

Pulling back for downshifts and pushing forward for upshifts is puzzling when most other companies place the downshift paddle on the left and the upshift paddle on the right.

The paddle shifters on the Clarity change the strength of battery regeneration when driving as an EV: Pull the left (minus) paddle 1 - 4 times to increase the level of regenerative braking, and pull the right (plus) paddle to back Pull the left (minus) paddle 1 - 4 times to increase the level of regenerative braking, and pull the right (plus) paddle to back pull the right (plus) paddle to back off.

That seven - speed transmission is still a traditional torque - converter automatic, but in character it's right there with the best of them — while shift speeds still skew toward the «automatic» rather than «dual clutch» end of the spectrum, the rev - matched downshifts in manual mode and responsive paddle shifters seemingly pulled straight from the GTR parts bin at least make the transmission feel more eager and alive — think BMW SMG - II or Ferrari F1 shift from a few years back, and you won't be far off.

The right paddle when pulled towards you changes the gears upwards from 1st to 6th which is displayed on a digital readout in the centre of the instrument panel.

We find the first of the seven forward gears in the double - clutch gearbox, pulling the steering - wheel mounted paddle on the right.

In typical M configuration, the driver pulls the right - hand paddle to shift up and the left - hand paddle to shift down.

Instead, pulling the left paddle increases the level of regenerative braking and the right decreases it.

And in the absence of a conventional manual shift gate for the pop - up Jaguar J-gate style selector dial, the only way to revert to auto mode once you've selected manual via the standard steering wheel gear shifters is to pull and hold the right - side paddle, or rotate the dial selector between normal and Sport mode.

You can control the paddles by clicking on the left or right sides of the screen, and launch a ball by pulling back on the plunger.

I was watching one surfer getting barreled yesterday at Balangan and I do mean barreled he was in there for maybe 3 seconds and deep when some kook paddles for his wave then pulls back realizing it was to steep for him then goes sailing over the falls right onto the guy in the tube's head.